The New Year started with a healthy beginning, as we bloggers got the opportunity to be part of the Palm Oil Gourmet Delights Event organized by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council.
The event was filled with an exciting food hunt and an informative brief on Palm oil which was held at Ardor 2.1 Connaught Place.
The event started off by Dr. Bhavna Shah, country representative of MPOC India/Srilanka, who gave us insights about the benefits of Palm oil.
She cleared many myths related to it and guided us with correct information. For several decades, saturated fats have been targeted as a risk factor for the ever-increasing incidence and mortality from Coronary Heart Disease.
However current evidence based on large population cohorts and subsequent meta-analysis of the data has created a much needed new opinion that swings the evidence away from saturated fat consumption.
Read here in details.
So Despite palm oil being quoted as high saturated fatty acid content, it has many nutritional factors.
Dr. Bhavna Shah, country representative of MPOC India/Srilanka
Why Palm Oil?
- Non-GMO (non-genetically modified organisms): Clean eating made easy.
- Nutrient-rich: Loaded with vitamin E tocotrienols which support skin, heart and brain health. Also rich in
- other phytonutrients
- Trans fat-free: A natural replacement for hydrogenated oils
- Ideal for cooking: Stable at high temperatures
What are the health benefits?
Palm oil has one of the highest content of Vitamin E containing Tocotrienol which is one of its components.
- Helps in hair growth
- Protects neurons
- Helps in reducing cholesterol and prevents the formation of atherosclerotic lesions.
- prevents the gastric ulcers disease
- protective effects against osteoporosis
- Due to its anti-oxidant properties, it reduces wrinkles. It also increases skin moisture and elasticity.
- Boosts immunity
- Helps in treating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver.
There are many more benefits, you can read in details here
Palm Oil exists in our everyday life. Really?
Yes, palm oil exists in our everyday life. Starting from toothpaste to breakfast (oatmeal, cereals ), pizzas to ice cream, shampoos to detergents, cosmetics to inks.
Palm oil is found in almost 50% of food products- from chocolates to biscuits, cakes, cookies and peanut butter to ice-cream, besides being the largest cooking oil consumed in India and globally.
Apart from its health advantages, it helps in economic and environmental sustainability as it requires less land, fewer fertilizers, and fewer pesticides than any other oilseed crop.
Also Read: Healthy Lifestyle Ways
Super Fun-Filled Activities
After having an eye-opener informative session, there were interesting food hunt fun activities and food tasting session followed by a healthy lunch.
We bloggers were divided into groups and then we were given clue card with which we need to locate the place and perform activities over there.
Ist clue card destination: Pandey Paan
It is a very famous shop since 1923. We had a paan over there which contained palm oil. It was tasty and delicious. Here we received our 2nd clue card.
2nd clue card destination: My Bar Headquarters
Here we had salad competition using palm oil as the main ingredient with 5 more additional ingredients. Dr. Bhawna along with one of the chef was the jury of this activity. After completion of our salad making, we received our 3rd clue card.
3rd clue card destination: Punjabi By Nature
We were given a questionnaire to fill up which was based on the Palm oil presentation.
After performing activities at all the three places, we came back to Ardor 2.1 and had a blind delicious food tasting session where we had to guess the ingredients of the dish which was cooked in palm oil.
Blind food tasting session
Later, winners were announced. Unfortunately, our team didn’t win but the memories we gathered will always be precious.
Our event ended with a healthy lunch and making some new friends.
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*Disclaimer : The content in this post is purely meant for educational purpose only.
